Sociolinguistics and CMC

whoa, dude. i'm going to campus to check that out right now.

i'm most excited about the introduction and postscript articles, to be honest. i don't think enough has been said about the actual application of sociocultural linguistics to what goes on in computer-mediated discourse. i wants to read about theory. i wants to read about methods.

(i want to read about ICT ethnography too, actually - where are all the linguistic anthropologists at?)
 

I do believe that someone has been reading our minds Joshua...
 

I, too, am way into this.
 

will this issue be available online? iorio, do we have access to this periodical thru utexas libs?

this is definitely exciting. interesting to see so many german/swiss-german articles out there on this topic.
 

yep, you can get it now through the library :)
 

by the way -

androutsopoulos's introduction to the issue is, well, kind of brilliant. it gives a decent overview of the cmc-sling literature thus far, defines some areas of research that are especially pertinent to sociolinguistics working on CMD, and gives a great critique of 'netspeak' and ideas about relatively homogenous 'online language' in general. it certainly won't be anything new to most people blogging here, but it's really refreshing to see her ideas put out in print, and especially in the journal of socioling.
 

thanks, joshua - much appreciated :-)
jannis

btw. it's "his ideas", not "her ideas"... jannis is greek for john, spelled according to german orthography rules :-)
 

oi. this is what i get for only studying romance orthography.

apologies, sir :)